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Click here for USGS real time streamflow/gage readings within
the past 6 hours. Scroll down to the Juniata River Basin readings and
read the Raystown Branch at Saxton, PA line. This is the best gage
for describing levels on the Raystown Branch Water Trail. The second
column on the right is the gage reading.
The description in the right column identifies adequate levels for canoeing and kayaking at different locations or streams. Please use this as a guide. . |
"Now, at great risk, I will specify a reading at each of these gauges which will generally support an easy canoe trip. Easy means at a level where tandem beginner canoeists (two people in the boat) will scrape or bump in the shallows, but if they get stuck, will not usually have to step out of the canoe to regain the channel. Here goes: Lewistown - 3.0, Newport - 3.5, Little Juniata at Spruce Creek - 1.9, Mapleton - 2.6, Huntingdon - 3.8, Saxton - 1.7, Williamsburg - 3.0, and Belden - 2.2.. Please be considerate as we all have different perceptions of what “easy" might mean. For comfortable kayaking adequate streamflow levels are 20% below those noted above for canoes. For example, if the Raystown Branch Saxton, PA gage reading was 1.4 this would be a good level for kayaking." |